Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Syrian rebel fighters
The Hazm movement had been seen as the ‘poster boy’ of the moderate opposition Washington hopes can be trained to oust President Bashar al-Assad

Ian Black or his sub-editor should know better. Washington hoped that they could be trained to fight ISIS, and leave Assad alone as much as possible. It is because they aren't some proxy force that the Americans can simply direct to its own ends that the policy has fallen apart.

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